Let’s be honest: It makes financial sense. “Many European opera and ballet companies already have a similar arrangement. But there are also some significant financial considerations for Lyric and the Joffrey. Opera and ballet each have passionate fan bases but those audiences are shrinking and the costs for each art form are rising sharply.”
Tag: 09.28.17
Film Incentives Gone Wild: Canary Islands Have Become Most Lucrative Place To Shoot Movies
The territory now ranks among the most financially attractive locations for shooting movies. The benefits extend to feature films, documentaries, animation projects and TV series. To qualify, a film’s minimum spend should be 1 million euros, or about $1.2 million, and the minimum budget must be 2 million euros, or approximately $2.3 million.
A Local Theatre That Acts Globally
Identifying La MaMa as a New York theatre is accurate in the geographical sense only. It might be more apt to think of it as the international theatre of the East Village, in accordance with Ellen Stewart’s belief that the local is global and the global local.
The Museum Made For The Age Of Instagram: Ice Cream!
“More than 241,000 people follow its page, and countless more have posted their own photos from within the space. (Instagram doesn’t show how many photos have been posted at a particular geotag, but there are over 66,000 images with the #museumoficecream hashtag.) All those grams have made the Museum of Ice Cream a coveted place to be: In New York, the $18 tickets to visit—300,000 in total—sold within five days of opening. At its San Francisco location, which opened this month, single tickets went up to $38. The entire six-month run sold out in less than 90 minutes.”
Experts: Leonardo Might Have Drawn Nude Mona Lisa
Scientists in Paris have been looking into a charcoal drawing of a woman, which was until now believed to have been drawn by Leonardo’s students. The drawing, titled Joconde Nue, shows a topless woman who bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa that hangs at the Louvre museum in central Paris. Experts at the same museum have concluded, after weeks of tests, that the charcoal drawing was “at least in part” actually done by Leonardo himself.
This Is What Theatre That Has Become Gentrified Looks Like
“The London-based company has become synonymous with a particular form of immersive theatre, where you are less of an audience member and more of a participant. Punchdrunk takes over a large building, such as an old office block, turns it into a meticulously decorated, multiroom stage set and sends theatregoers wandering through.”
Pompeii To Build Contemporary Art Collection
“Pompeii is inviting artists to create sculptural works incorporating archaeological fragments from the ancient Roman site near Naples, which its director-general Massimo Osanna says will show that it is still ‘a place of the contemporary’. Osanna hopes to build a permanent collection of new works and open a space to display them.”
How A Playwright Sparked A Critic’s Memories Of Her Own Late Father
“Theater is where I go to confront the hard stuff; to have my heart shredded there is O.K.” Laura Collins-Hughes writes of her recent encounters with Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday and Eurydice and how they helped her with her father’s decline and death from Parkinson’s disease.
Marcel Proust Had Sock-Puppets Plant Good Reviews Of His Work
“The French writer Marcel Proust paid for glowing reviews of the first volume of his Remembrance of Things Past to be put into newspapers, letters by the great author reveal. The novelist wrote the notices himself and sent them to be typed up by his publisher ‘so there is no trace of my handwriting’ to distance himself ‘absolutely from the money that will change hands’.”
To Close Deficits, Met Opera Resorts To Staff Buyouts
“The Metropolitan Opera, which has continued to struggle at the box office and face what it calls ‘economic challenges,’ has offered voluntary buyouts to 21 of its 243 administrative employees.”